Prize Recipient

Forrest Fleming Crim
University of Wisconsin

Citation:

"For the application of novel and powerful spectroscopic and dynamics techniques to elegantly demonstrate the feasibility of bond-selective photodissociation of molecules, holding the promise of control of chemical reactions by light."

Prof. Crim's research in chemical dynamics uses lasers to study the fundamental details of chemical reactions by creating highly energized molecules and following them spectroscopically. Using this approach, he and his coworkers have demonstrated vibrational state control of the pathways in photodissociation and bimolecular reaction.